Greetings from Takaka
The witch and I are in Golden Bay for the weekend, having very many adventures and with limited wifi, so you’ll have to wait until I get home to hear them, and to see all the photos.
Saturday 23 April, 11 am, at the convention We’re about to have a guest speaker, and I’m not sure whether they’ll be speaking in English or Greek, so this seems like a good opportunity to catch up a bit. So, after Zeus’s temple we wanted to try and find the Lykia where Aristotle taught. It…
Do do do do, do do do-do dooo… sorry, accidentally segued into bad 80s music there. But I’m all packed, the house is tidy, I’ve left a note for my house-sitter, and in an hour or so Lytteltonwitch will turn up and we’ll be off to the airport. And about 35 hours and 5 airports…
Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10 pm (Bangkok time) – somewhere over Indonesia, three hours from Bangkok I woke up from a half-sleep just in time to see one of the islands of Indonesia below us. It’s pitch dark, of course (according to the flight info screen thing, it’s 11 pm locally), but the islands are…
The latest bird in flight, a peregrine falcon. Which puts me way ahead of where I should be in the quilt-along, but the more I can get done now while life is relatively quiet, the less pressure I’ll have towards the end to get it finished. I’m not entirely happy with my work on this…
t doesn’t help that the heating isn’t on at work yet (no idea why not – normally they turn it on at Easter and off again at Show Weekend, no matter the weather in between those dates (something to do with how much it costs to fire the system up for the first time when…
ou know that quilt-along? The one for Tartankiwi’s birds in flight quilt? The one I worked out I absolutely wouldn’t have time to do? Yeah, I just bought the patterns for it. And I’ll probably go and buy some fabric tomorrow. This is probably (certainly) a very stupid thing to do, because there is no…